Naveen Samudrala

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, University of Dayton

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Naveen Samudrala is a robotics researcher whose work focuses on the integration of Robot Operating System (ROS) with practical control interfaces for mobile and manipulator robots. His key research areas include ROS-based robot control, multi-modal human-robot interaction, and the application of image processing for robotic manipulation. Samudrala’s most cited paper, “Robot Operating System Integrated robot control through Secure Shell (SSH)” (2019, 9 citations), demonstrates a novel approach to remotely operating a disaster rescue robot by accessing its CPU via SSH, enabling secure, real-time command execution from a console. Expanding on this, his 2020 work “ROS Based Multimode Control of Wheeled Robot” (7 citations) presents a small-scale wheeled robot controlled through multiple interfaces using a Raspberry Pi 3 and Python, showcasing accessible, low-cost robotics. In 2021, his paper on “Inverse Kinematics of Robot Manipulator Integrated with Image Processing Algorithms” (4 citations) bridges kinematics and computer vision, enhancing manipulator precision. Though early in his career, Samudrala’s contributions to ROS-based remote control and multimodal systems have laid groundwork for practical, deployable robotics in search-and-rescue and educational contexts.